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Do you think the United States should
lead or follow, I guess that is the question!
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MR. HARTLING:
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Well, the United States is the leader and the United States has done 50%, together with Ottawa and Canberra, Canada and Australia and so on, they have done a good part and the majority has gone to those countries as
everybody knows. But the United States cannot be alone with it and therefore an initiative from other big countries like the United Kingdom, France and so on, would be helpful to inspire the resettlement countries to go on. That is our logic, our
argumentation.
MR. DAVICO:
In order to allow the colleagues from
radio and television, I think we should limit the question period to another two or three minutes, two or three questions go ahead please!
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MELINDA LIU, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE:
You mention the big immigration countries as the United States,
Canada and Australia. As I understand it, China is the second
largest recipient of Indo-Chinese refugees; do you consider that
China might be able to help out with this situation in Hong Kong, given that Hong Kong and China are so closely linked and indeed,
will be the same after 1997?
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MR. HARTLING:
China has done marvellous job,
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because they have received 280,000 more than a quarter of a
million refugees. The situation is a little different because
they are more or less a country of first asylum, they came from
Vietnam to China, they were kindly received, they are settled
and they are given good conditions. Last week I went and saw
different camps where I met the refugees, but I don't think they
can absorb (with some exceptions), but by and large, they cannot
absorb people from Hong Kong. First of all, I don't think the refugees will ask to go there, they ask to go other places and
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